This has nothing to do with Tyson or Superman, but I just wanted to come randomly into this thread and complain about the ultra-shrill singing going on upstairs on that Voice show my wife & mother-in-law are watching.

I'm in the basement looking at Fark links, hating Earth, wishing it would explode in a Kryptonian apocalypse.

Parallax:This has nothing to do with Tyson or Superman, but I just wanted to come randomly into this thread and complain about the ultra-shrill singing going on upstairs on that Voice show my wife & mother-in-law are watching.

I'm in the basement looking at Fark links, hating Earth, wishing it would explode in a Kryptonian apocalypse.

We found a fictional asteroid belt that Superman has visited in past incarnations? Whoopi-freaking-Goldberg-a-didgeridoo.

And great, now we have the need to explain how fast Superbaby was flying to earth, how Superdad figured out Earth was there and had life, the thrust the rocket ship needed to counteract an increasing pull of gravity from Krypton's expanding sun, average speed of the floating Phantom Zone mirror thing, how long it would take a chunk of Krypton to land in Addis Ababa ... sigh.

Practical_Draconian:We found a fictional asteroid belt that Superman has visited in past incarnations? Whoopi-freaking-Goldberg-a-didgeridoo.

And great, now we have the need to explain how fast Superbaby was flying to earth, how Superdad figured out Earth was there and had life, the thrust the rocket ship needed to counteract an increasing pull of gravity from Krypton's expanding sun, average speed of the floating Phantom Zone mirror thing, how long it would take a chunk of Krypton to land in Addis Ababa ... sigh.

RELEASE THE GEEKDOM.

Just to piss you off, allow me to point out that gravity is determined by mass and the square root of the distance between the two objects. A 5 solar mass star and a 5 solar mass black hole have the same gravitational field unless you're so close that you'd be inside the photosphere of the star.

Inside that distance, you have to start thinking about how much star is "above" you. gravity at the center of a non-singularity is effectively zero. Gravity at the center of a singularity is math I don't know how to do :P

Practical_Draconian:We found a fictional asteroid belt that Superman has visited in past incarnations? Whoopi-freaking-Goldberg-a-didgeridoo.

And great, now we have the need to explain how fast Superbaby was flying to earth, how Superdad figured out Earth was there and had life, the thrust the rocket ship needed to counteract an increasing pull of gravity from Krypton's expanding sun, average speed of the floating Phantom Zone mirror thing, how long it would take a chunk of Krypton to land in Addis Ababa ... sigh.

RELEASE THE GEEKDOM.

No, we don't. Jor-El was just impossibly smart and with infinitely more resources/knowledge than us :P

GrendelMk1:Just to piss you off, allow me to point out that gravity is determined by mass and the square root of the distance between the two objects. A 5 solar mass star and a 5 solar mass black hole have the same gravitational field unless you're so close that you'd be inside the photosphere of the star.

Inside that distance, you have to start thinking about how much star is "above" you. gravity at the center of a non-singularity is effectively zero. Gravity at the center of a singularity is math I don't know how to do :P

"Dude, I need to warn y'all of Earth ... Math is coming. And my hair is a bird."

Actually, I'm more intrigued by the Addis Ababa meteorite and how that got here in time for Superman.Maybe it was just a brick of bad weed Haile Selassie got from his visit to his Rastafarian faithful in Jamaica, or that it was green-colored silver kryptonite.

/actually, a Superman movie with Nic Cage as a drug-abusing, cynical, amoral, out-of-touch Kryptonian who has trouble relating to Earthlings would be interesting.

Practical_Draconian:"Dude, I need to warn y'all of Earth ... Math is coming. And my hair is a bird."

Actually, I'm more intrigued by the Addis Ababa meteorite and how that got here in time for Superman.Maybe it was just a brick of bad weed Haile Selassie got from his visit to his Rastafarian faithful in Jamaica, or that it was green-colored silver kryptonite.

/actually, a Superman movie with Nic Cage as a drug-abusing, cynical, amoral, out-of-touch Kryptonian who has trouble relating to Earthlings would be interesting.

You ought not to dismiss math in such a cavalier manner. After all, how else but math would you determine if you're getting good value on a $200 ounce?

/yer right, Nic Cage as a druggie alien with super powers would be cool.//Nic needs to be actually stoned for the whole shoot :P

Practical_Draconian:GrendelMk1:Just to piss you off, allow me to point out that gravity is determined by mass and the square root of the distance between the two objects. A 5 solar mass star and a 5 solar mass black hole have the same gravitational field unless you're so close that you'd be inside the photosphere of the star.

Inside that distance, you have to start thinking about how much star is "above" you. gravity at the center of a non-singularity is effectively zero. Gravity at the center of a singularity is math I don't know how to do :P

[24.media.tumblr.com image 471x480]"Dude, I need to warn y'all of Earth ... Math is coming. And my hair is a bird."

Actually, I'm more intrigued by the Addis Ababa meteorite and how that got here in time for Superman.Maybe it was just a brick of bad weed Haile Selassie got from his visit to his Rastafarian faithful in Jamaica, or that it was green-colored silver kryptonite.

/actually, a Superman movie with Nic Cage as a drug-abusing, cynical, amoral, out-of-touch Kryptonian who has trouble relating to Earthlings would be interesting.

I don't think anything about that picture could look more like shiat if we focused the worlds photoshopping skills on it.

It is at maximum shiattery. Utter shiatsaturation... shiaturation if you will.